Kawawang Israeli American Pinabayaan at Iniwan Na Ng Mga Kasamahan | TechRAM To The Rescue!
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You know, I was a writer.
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I did science fiction shows for Netflix and Hollywood.
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My ambition is to become a director and producer of films.
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So, that's why I came over here.
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And during COVID, you know, my Netflix project.
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May I know where's your wife?
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Well, she's dead.
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So, well, she wasn't my wife but she was my girlfriend.
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But, you know, I was married and divorced three times in the U.S. before coming here.
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So, my first wife lived in Israel.
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Sir Steven, do you have a house to live here?
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Yeah, I have an apartment.
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Ah, you have an apartment?
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Why you don't have clothes?
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I do but I just...
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Do you want me to buy you clothes or do you have clothes there?
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Well, you know, a shirt would be nice.
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Whatever, shorts, either or.
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You know, I do but I usually go around because part of this is my condition.
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It elevates the temperatures like, you know.
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I can help you to go to clinic or hospital.
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This place actually right here, it's actually a dental implant place.
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They're like very kind.
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Anytime I need, you know, a wound dressing, I'll do it.
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Have you been there before?
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It's right next door.
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You know, they saw me one time and they like came out.
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The nurse came out and they dressed my wound up.
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Can we go there again?
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You know, I don't like to bother because they do it for free and, you know, and they have like, you know.
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No, we can pay them.
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Okay, it's up to you.
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It's just right over there, 10 meters away.
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Can I go with you in your house or, you know?
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And with the approval of, you know, the people, my landlord.
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No, I'm just thinking what can I help you.
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Well, you know, just keep the word out that there's people that are kind of getting repressed by, you know,
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triads or gangsters here and, you know, they need the assistance of the people in public to like say hey.
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I'm just wondering about your family.
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Maybe they are just, they are worried about you.
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They're looking about you.
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They're worried and they're concerned but they have their own things to do and, you know,
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and I don't, you know, don't want to get them involved because, you know, they have kids and things like that.
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And you don't understand how these gangsters operate.
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These gangsters, it's very easy for them because most of all the drug trades, they're interconnected with every country.
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They have like, you know, people selling in Russia, people selling here, people selling there.
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When was the last time you go, you visit your family, your country?
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I've been here three and a half years.
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So, three and a half years I've seen somebody in the U.S. or been outside the country.
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry what happened to you here.
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You know, it's like, you know.
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May I know how many brothers do you have or sister do you have?
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Okay, well, I grew up with like four siblings.
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So, two brothers, one sister.
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But those two of them were from a previous marriage.
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I came to find out my father was married three times.
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He had two kids from each marriage.
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So, actually I have a half sister, half brother from the first marriage.
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Two of them that I grew up with.
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And then, you know, me and my blood brother from my family.
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So, there's six siblings all together.
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And my parents have passed away.
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May I know what is your profession?
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My profession? You know, I was a writer.
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I did science fiction shows for Netflix and then Hollywood.
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My ambition is to become a director and producer of films.
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So, that's why I came over here.
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And during COVID, you know, my Netflix project got, you know, on standby
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because they weren't allowing any filming or shooting.
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So, I came to the Philippines to get a crew together with GMA7
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and do a couple of projects.
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You know, a love story, a series, and a gangster film.
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But in the meantime, you know, I got involved with this beautiful girl.
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She got attacked by the director.
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So, you know, there's a lot of misunderstanding.
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They came over and they saw I was smart and I knew a lot of things.
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They didn't know if I came over to take over the directorate or whatever.
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You know, they didn't know anything about me.
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It's like, I mean, I kept telling her.
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What can you say about my countrymen?
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You have, like, some of the most intelligent, beautiful people, you know, around.
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And, you know, I love this country.
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Now, you have, like, you know...
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You almost cried. Why?
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Well, you know, my guy, the girl, is dead.
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It's okay. You can...
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Well, you know, she was one of those perfect daughters.
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She came here to make money.
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She sent 170,000 a month back to her family.
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She got foot jobs because she didn't want to, like, you know, compromise.
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Powers of B took something beautiful and twisted it into something, you know, like, you know, unimaginable.
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So I don't want to see that happen to her kids or anybody else.
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And so, you know, I just want people to know, you know, they see me around there.
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It's because, you know, I'm, like, fighting the powers of B.
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So, you know, you can't, like, hide from this.
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Somebody gives you a, you know, she's supposed to have a bad reputation.
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You can't sit and hide. It's going to make it worse.
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You got to go out there in public and talk to people, meet them there and say,
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Oh, that stuff's not true. I've seen it on the videos.
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What, you know...
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You want to say something to her? You have a message to her?
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Well, you know, she's passed away, you know, but...
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I have a message for, like, you know, the daddies that are involved in this.
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It's, like, you know, it's easy for us to work together to make this country even wealthier
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without getting involved in the sex and drug trade.
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And, you know, I told you, like, that, you know, that criminal effort, you know, in their brain.
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You know, they think they're taking a short path.
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You know, all that, all those criminal ventures is, like, a shortcut to be, you know, becoming wealthy.
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It's, like, you know, actually, you know, the shortcut to becoming wealthy is, like,
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to be an engineer, innovative, you know, come up with things.
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If you read the Bible, it's, like, you know, you have to go out in the desert and get tested, you know, for 40 days and, you know, see...
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Do you believe in God?
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Of course, 100%. You know, that's the whole thing.
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It's, like, you know, there's nothing, nothing, you know, so, I mean, there's nothing, like, accidental or random in the universe.
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This is all, like, you know, up to, you know, essentially a system or a plan.
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I mean, the fact that things work like they do here, I mean, if it was random, we wouldn't have grabbed it.
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It's, like, okay, maybe one day we could walk on the street, next day we're floating up in the sky, right?
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You know, it's, like, the reason all this operates the way it does is because it's on a system, man.
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That system, you know, for whatever it's worth, we don't know who designed it, but somebody designed it.
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And, what do you call it? It's, like, whatever.
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You know, you either appreciate and you look at the, you know, the, you know, design and how it works.
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It's, like, you know, we see that most of the atheists, people who don't believe in God, they, like, they have some bitterness to them.
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May I know where's your wife?
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Well, she's dead. So, well, she wasn't my wife, but she was my girlfriend.
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But, you know, I was married and divorced three times in the U.S. before coming here.
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So, my first wife lived in Israel, right?
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Do you know what's happening now in Israel?
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Yeah, they have, like, you know, what they call the Anifada.
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No, right now, do you know what's happening in Israel?
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I've heard for some people. I don't keep up with the news.
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Do you want to watch what's happening there now?
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You know, I lived there, you know, for many years. I know, you know, the problems between...
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There's a war now.
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Well, there's been a war for, since 1948.
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And so, and the reason for that war is, like, you know, the Jewish people, because of World War II, right?
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They were targeted by Hitler and they became, like, you know, they went to concentration camps.
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All the Jewish people almost got eliminated by a crazy guy named Adolf Hitler.
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So, they needed a place to call their home and, like, accept anybody who was, like, given a problem that was Jewish from around the world.
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And that became Israel because of the history, you know?
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It's like, you know, Jerusalem, that's where the history comes from. Moses, everything else.
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So, now the problem was, at the time, it was called Palestine and that was, it was a British colony, actually.
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And so, Palestine had both, you know, Muslim and Jewish people living there.
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And they kind of coexisted because the British were, like, keeping everything in order.
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And then, when the British left, you know, the Jewish people said, hey, we're going to make this our homeland.
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And that became, like, the Zionist movement.
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And the Muslims got, you know, very kind of upset about that because, you know, Jerusalem is a holy city for every religion.
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So, you got Christianity, of course, Jesus. You have the Muslims, you know, Mohammed.
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You have, like, the Jewish people, Moses and Abraham, things like that, Aaron.
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So, that's basically, you know, what it comes down to is, like, misrepresentation of these religions based on people, you know, that want to, you know, take control for some reason.
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And so, it's like the whole, you know, Osama Bin Laden, things like that, you know.
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Bin Laden came from a very wealthy family, you know, running machines and stuff like that.
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And people were saying, like, he fell.
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What is your plan now?
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Well, my plan now is to, you know, keep pushing, you know, to do innovative things and get the powers that be that are, like, you know, wanting to keep over the drug trade.
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Turn that around so they can make this place, you know, really a great place that it should be.
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No sewage in the streets, you know, no disease, no illness.
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I mean, we rid the world of tuberculosis a long time ago. It's still a problem here in the Philippines.
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And I'm fortunate, you know, I have a family, and his name is Jonas Salk, and he was the guy that created, you know, the vaccination for, like, polio, you know, I'm talking about polio.
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But, you know, he spent his life, you know, doing research and stuff, and he created a cure for polio.
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But you don't have a plan to go to your home?
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Well, you know, I would still have to, you know, be very careful about getting a replacement passport.
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They don't have direct contact with me, the people that stole my passport.
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So, you know, of course, if I get my passport back, I'm going to do checks on my social security number, et cetera, and see, you know, what they're doing with my, you know, credentials.
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When your passport was stolen to you?
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It was stolen probably almost two years ago now, down in Baloy, by an American, actually.
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How can they help you to get a new passport?
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Well, I just need, I have to file. The quickest way is I go to an attorney, I get a file where they call it an affidavit of loss.
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Yeah, because if you file like it was stolen, you have to spend a lot of time getting an investigator to come, you know, verify that it's been stolen.
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So, basically, you go to an attorney, they write up a document that says, you know, this person, blah, blah, blah, lost his passport.
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And you need that when you get a replacement passport. So, then you have to schedule an appointment with the embassy.
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Sorry, sir, if I'm not good in English, but I'm trying my best to communicate so that maybe I can help you.
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No, I understand fully. No, yeah, you're doing, you know, what you do is like letting people know, and that's been great.
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You know, I got a lot of support right now. People come by and they've heard about me and they know what's happening.
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Kaya, guys. Ano, shirt at saka damit.
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You like the ambulance? You've been here before?
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No, it's, maybe it's my third time here.
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But I'm just happy that I saw you here.
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Thank you. Well, I'm happy to, you know, talk with you guys.
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Nice to meet you, sir.
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Very nice to meet you guys, too.
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I'm thankful for having you here. Thanks for having me listen to your story.
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It's not me. It's God.
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Sir Steven, for three years, where did you get your food?
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Well, I built a housing business with my father when I was younger. I've been working since I was like four years old.
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No, here. When you arrived here...
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I have, from a family trust, you know, that's from the, you know, like inheritance.
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I have 2,000 US, which is, you know, 100 to 150,000 pesos a month.
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Which, you know, I get through Western Union.
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You know, I can buy food with that or whatever I want.
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Now, the problem is, like, I get pushed into these places that, you know, lie to you or cheat to you and say,
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Hey, you know, it's like, for my mother's sake, can you borrow me 10,000 pesos? You know what I'm saying?
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There's a lot of people who do this to me all the time.
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So, many times, after I get my remittance of a third of the month, you know, two days later, all my money's gone
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because I've tried to help a lot of people.
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So, that's generally what happens when I'm on the street.
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Because I'd rather help people out, you know.
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I'd rather live on the street and help people out than, like, you know, see people in distress.
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Thank you, sir, for doing that.
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Thank you for, like, being a believer, you know.
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Because that's what it takes, you know.
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Sir Stephen, if you have a lesson in life you want to share, we'll watch this video. What is it?
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Every day, we're tested, you know.
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Every decision that we make to help or not help somebody, we're being tested.
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You might say by God or something else, but, you know, it's an opportunity to influence the world in a positive way.
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So, you know, heaven and hell, I mean, we're, this is the battlefield here, you know.
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It's like, we can make that decision to, like, you know, elevate this place to heaven or, like, make it lower.
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And so, you know, everybody just do their part, you know.
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And, you know, the shortcut is the one that gets you in trouble.
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So, you're trying to jump, you know, jump up three steps without, you know,
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because there's lots of things to learn along those levels if you're going up or going down.
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Be careful what you wish for because, you know, you can achieve that without, like, having to, you know, try and get it instantly through a wish.
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But, you know, taking shortcuts all the time.
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Is your apartment, do you own that or?
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It's not pretty at all.
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It's reserved food.
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Do you understand Tagalog, Kuya?
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Why don't, why don't tell me you understand Tagalog pala?
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Not entirely. I've just been a little bit lazy because they speak English.
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But, you know, I speak Hebrew, I speak Chinese, I speak Russian, you know.
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I've been around the world. I have ex-wives from many places.
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I speak a lot of languages.
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What? You have many wives?
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My first wife was from Israel, so that's why I speak Hebrew.
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I have a daughter that lives over there now.
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You have a wife in Israel.
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And then, where's the next wife?
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Next one's from China.
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She's living in Los Angeles, California with two daughters.
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And my last ex-wife was Korean-Russian.
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She's from a place called Yuzno-Sakhalinsk, which is Eastern Russian, above Japan.
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How many sons or daughters?
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One son, three daughters.
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About the fourth wife?
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Well, we call her Masawa. That's the one here.
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We weren't married, but, you know, the Filipina that I fell in love with here.
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Masawa is like a word for both girlfriend and wife.
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I thought there's a...
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Yeah, they're right all over here.
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I'm not sure why I picked this one.
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Now, this street's called Don Winko, right?
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Now, Don Winko runs up towards Friendship, which is up north.
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And you can actually branch off this walking street here, which is a walking street.
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And along the way, you have all these...
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Thank you for watching!
